On sampling:
Versioning has always been a part of Black music.
And some of those versions are bound to be mediocre.
But maybe people will here the sample, get curious,
and hunt down the original.
Or find it in the one dollar basement bin!
J
http://www.geocities.com/hotsprings/1392/BlackMusic.html
--- Rick Martinez <dopejazz@webtv.net> wrote:
> Unfortunately this hurts me tell you all, if you
> don't already know.
> Manu Dibango's "Soul Makossa" has been raped by
> commercial pop star
> Jennifer "Big Booty" Lopez and overpaid/ overhyped
> Big Pun and Fat Joe
> on their horrible MTV playin' "Feel so Good",it
> shoul've been called
> "Feel So Bad" When I heard it. Yuc!!!! . Damn right,
> I'm mad, when Afro-
> funk classics like "Soul Makossa" & Fela Kuti are
> being put to Will
> Smith, PuffDaddy. R&B Commercial shit. What's next
> "Expensive Shit"
> ripped by the next Wil Smith tune, I certainly hope
> not. I know the rock
> band Sugar Ray used a part of Hugh Masekela's
> "Grazing in the grass",
> which is still hard to take. I will be proud to know
> that Masters at
> Work, Idjut Boys, Fazed Action, Ron Trent, Soul
> Ascendents, etc. have
> given a respectful tribute to the classic and
> influential forefathers of
> Afro- funk!!! They aint fakin' an Afro-funk!
>
> Essential.
>
> UniverSoul/ Urbanite/ Pure & Wyze
> http://djessential.iscool.net
> Essential's Real Audio Mix @
> http://www.swell.net/reg/locals/essential/
>
>
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